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Kind Quotes by Nick Cave
- The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.
- I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
- My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the…
- To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are…
- Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always…
- At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out…
- I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you…
- I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the…
- I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as…
- I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a…
- I've always worn suits. To me they're a very practical kind of thing to wear. You put one on and don't really have to think…
- My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need…
- When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular…
- I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.
- I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
- I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on…
- Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room to…
- The guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of - when you play it, you sort of push…
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